For this spotlight, we turn once again to the South Jersey Theatre Critics, a volunteer group that works to review and promote community theater throughout South Jersey. We profiled the group and some of their newer reviewers in our March edition, and this month the group’s founder, Kristine Bonaventura, asked that we shine our spotlight on an individual working behind the scenes to make the group grow and thrive – Lisa Croce, their chief editor.
This group would not have grown to the size it has without them,” Bonaventura said in nominating them.
Lisa has been involved in South Jersey theater for many, many, (and many more “manys”) years. She started dancing at the age of 4, and has been in love with theatre since the age of 14. She was a musical theater major at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and after spending about 10 years in New York City, she moved back to the area and jumped into the community theater realm. Lisa is primarily a performer, and can mostly be found on the stage; however, she has also tried her hand at directing and choreographing from time to time. She also serves as Recording Secretary on the Board of Directors at Bridge Players Theatre Company. Her real-life, no-fun, job is working as a Quality Assurance Analyst in the mortgage industry. She also enjoys game night (board games), movies, reading, cats, tattoos, and especially ice cream. She is “theatre mom” to one and all, but her number one love of her life is her daughter, Lana.
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